Well I finally got through the installation error free. Oracle 9i R2 on redhat 9. After the installation the database configuration assistant ran smoothly. I was able to see the listener running, logged on to sqlplus with the default user, and logged back out. The tutorial I used had a start up script to run. I put it in /etc/init.d and have it run at system start up. Problem is it is not starting up properly. Here is the script file:

The error I get is: "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart|reload". I understand that this error means that the script is not getting a proper parameter. It should be start, shutdown, or reload/restart. My question is: Does the system supply this script file with the parameter? I would assume so but want to make sure. Next question is: If the system does supply the parameters are start, stop, and restart the correct parameters?

Please take a look at the script file. Everything looks in order to me. The only problem appears to be that the script file is not getting the proper parameter.